dreariness

dreary | American Dictionary

dreary
adjective
us/ˈdrɪər·i/
unattractive and having nothing of any interest, and therefore likely to make you sad:
It was a gray, dreary day, with periods of rain.

Examples of dreary

dreary
The problem may seem dreary but it still needs spelling out in detail.
The text, in traditional number-opera format, is indeed stilted and dreary.
Thus, dreary was also assigned to the class of disyllabic words.
Spiritualist treatises are, in most cases, dreary compendiums of facts and observations.
All that television can offer instead is a dreary keyhole peep at the teenage clan in action.
Another reason may be that church members help older people materially and visit them, probably a welcome change in their dreary existence.
He gives a clear account of the issues involved in what he calls 'the dreary old nature-nurture problem'.
So the building is not dreary and dull.
It is not just another volume in the long and often dreary history of usage guides.
By now architecture has turned its back on dreary practice to reinvent itself.
All was hopelessly dreary and unclean.
It should not be dreary.
His judgements, however, include such statements as 'the heights of inarticulacy', 'this blather', language studies 'hijacked by the descriptive linguists', and 'dreary gruel' (the output of those linguists).
It's a dreary dull day.
We should all lead very dreary lives if we shut our politics away in a watertight compartment.
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